This book tells a story of an encounter between Archaeology and Applied Mathematics. The author was an engineer at Electricite de France (EDF), a former Assistant Professor at Ecole Polytechnique. He is currently a researcher at EDF, Ecole Polytechnique and ENSTA, an expert in theories and applications in Solid Mechanics & Inverse Problems, He worked... more...

Project management is since many years a topic in the world of information and communication technology. Many books, courses and seminars focus on a most effective and efficient development and implementation of information systems and technical infrastructures. At the same time numerous publications contain sad stories about failing projects and results.... more...

This final report describes the study of an exceptionally well-preserved Iron Age building discovered in northern Burkina Faso, West Africa. The site of Oursi hu-beero, meaning "the big house of Oursi" in the locally spoken Songhay language, was excavated in 2000 and 2001 by a scientific team from the universities of Frankfurt am Main and... more...

In the 1920s and 30s, a band of British officers stationed in Egypt began to explore the Western Desert which straddles the borders with Libya and the Sudan. Adapting a series of Model T Fords, Bagnold and his colleagues set out across territory hitherto traversed only by camel caravans. They mapped new routes across ‘impassable? sand seas, in ‘regions... more...

The story of David vs. Goliath is perhaps the best personification of the fight between good and evil. Righteousness was overmatched and evil was overconfident. Each of the ten men featured in this book knows what it's like to be engaged in such a battle. They all share a common bond consisting of common traits that even further reinforce that... more...

At the commencement of World War I in 1914 Australia had only been a nation for 13 years and the RAN was only three years old (NZ had been a dominion for 7 years and had no independent navy). As young men rushed to enlist, the governments of both countries had to find ways of transporting them to a war being fought half a world away and ... more...